SHANTA NOIR

Shanta Noir about the FACEBASS:

"To use the facebass for my didgeridoo sounds seems to me as essential, as the development from box guitar to electric guitar.The facebass got the potential to lift the sound of the didgeridoo to a very creativ and complete different soundexperience, far behind nowadays sound conservatism."

Shanta Noir’s music has been inspired equally by a variety of traditional cultures as well as by styles from the electronic charts.

Funky beats melt with the earthy riffs of African drums. Acoustic spaces from the soundlab match with the pulse of the didgeridoo.

Shanta Noir is never stuck for ideas as to how to build a creative bridge, avoiding the aloofness of other electronic genres by putting to the fore the powerful performance of his musicians. The music is ardently multicultural, seducing the soul into dialogue and leaving no doubt as to how much they want to see their audience dance.

DAVEJ

DaveJ on focus using the FACEBASS

"I love the sound … I like the bottom end,

the rhythm, the driving force of the music"

DaveJ is one of incredible artists who uses the facebass for
performing. We talked to DaveJ to tell us how he is working with the
FACEBASS and what makes the FACEBASS in combination with a didgeribone
so incredible:

I have been using the facebass for about a year now, I'm still discovering new tricks and sounds it can create.

One
of the biggest advantages is that is gives me so much freedom on stage -
because it is in my mouth, I can change didjeridoos easily and quickly
if I want to, I can dance around, play fast slide didj - unlike a normal
didj microphone which keeps you fixed to one playing position.

It
is great for looping, which I do a lot of! I have tried using
microphones but because they pickup background noise and any existing
loops playing through my amp/foldback/front of house, it's near
impossible to get a clean loop recorded on stage. With the facebass,
because it's 'listening' inside my mouth, my mouth forms a natural 'cone
of silence' to keep all other noise out, which results in very clean
loops.

It's also great for using effects. I use distortion in a
lot of my tracks, and my experiements with microphones and live
distortion weren't very successful due to feedback. With the facebass my
mouth shields the sensor from outside noise and effectively eliminates
feedback.

The facebass is sturdy. I have dropped mine and trodden
on it (accidentally of course) and I reshaped it without any problems.
I'm sure you couldn't do that with a normal microphone!I have also found it great for singing, humming and all sorts of vocal sound effects that you can't do with a normal microphone.

One
challenge I found with the facebass is that it takes quite a while to
get to used to using it, and playing with it. It does involve a change
in breathing, and possibly where you place the mouthpiece of the didj on
your mouth. So it's quite a change from playing normal didjeridoo …
however, the advantages of using it far outweigh the practice you have
to do with it!.